I'm an innovator, creative thinker, problem-solver, who has a key passion for helping, enabling, and developing other people. It's why I travel the world as a public speaker and trainer, as well as having deep roots in the open-source world, as I love giving back to people and the ecosystem of technology. "Pay it forward" is a key phrase you'll hear me sticking by, which is why I'm so involved in Open Source software and communities.Right now my passion is bringing innovative engineering solutions to the world of recruitment.All of the above are the core fundamentals of why I started my business, and what drives me every day.My personal career background is as follows.Roles I have experience in ----------* Principal Software Engineer* Principal Quality/Test Engineer (SDET)* Lead DevOps/SRE Engineer * Technical Architect / Software Architect / Infrastructure Architect / Solutions Architect* Head of Engineering / Chief Technology OfficerOpen Source Involvement -----------* Contributor to the PHP language* A member of PHP-FIG (official standards body). * Author of PHP standards (some are now reaching 300,000,000 installations)* Member of the Jenkins Project. Involvement within Blue Ocean and JenkinsX projects* Member of the Continuous Delivery Foundation* Founder and organizer of the ScotlandPHP Conference (2017-2021)* Contributor to Dagger (CI/CD)Languages I've used:ASM, C, C++, C#, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, PythonKey Areas of Expertise:* I have 20 years of experience in software engineering, with 17 years of commercial experience.* Teaching, mentoring, public speaking, bringing people teams together* Software Architecture / Infrastructure architecture / Test Architecture / Application Architecture* Distributed Systems / Microservices* Quality Assurance / Testing Solutions / CI/CD solutions* Test Driven Development (TDD) / Behavioral Driven Development (BDD)* Domain Driven Development (DDD)Sectors I have experience in:* Banking, FinTech* Automotive (UK Gov and private sector), * Health (NHS, UK Gov)* Accounting, Travel* Environmental Management* E-Learning, Retail, E-Commerce, Customer Experience Management* Affiliate MarketingAreas I've provided public speaking, public workshops and private workshops on:* CI/CD solutions using Jenkins and JenkinsX* Software design and architecture* Automation testing, and quality engineering* Distributed systems / Microservices* BDD, TDD, DDD.. and more ..